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Schnakenberg

The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion model, which forms Turing patterns from noise when Dv >> Du.

  • Name: schnakenberg
  • Field: chemistry/pattern_formation
  • Formalism: ordinary differential equations
  • References: Schnakenberg 1979; Turing 1952; Murray 2003

Factory

@register_model(
    field='chemistry/pattern_formation',
    tags=('field', 'reaction-diffusion', 'Turing', 'pde'),
    references=('Schnakenberg 1979', 'Turing 1952', 'Murray 2003'),
    defaults={'until': 200.0, 'dt': 5.0, 'solver': RK4Solver(dt=0.005)},
)
def schnakenberg(
    shape: Sequence[int] = (64, 64),
    *,
    a: float = 0.1,
    b: float = 0.9,
    Du: float = 1.0,
    Dv: float = 40.0,
    spacing: float = 1.0,
    random_state: int | np.random.Generator | None = 0,
) -> System:
    """Return the Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion model, which forms Turing patterns from noise when `Dv >> Du`.

    The steady state `u = a + b`, `v = b / (a + b)^2` is stable without diffusion and unstable to perturbations of a
    band of wavelengths with it.

    Args:
        shape:
            The number of sites along every dimension of the periodic lattice.

        a:
            The production of `u`.

        b:
            The production of `v`.

        Du:
            The diffusion of the activator `u`.

        Dv:
            The diffusion of the inhibitor `v`.

        spacing:
            The distance between sites.

        random_state:
            The seed or generator of the noise.

    Returns:
        system:
            The model, with the concentrations `cells.u` and `cells.v`.

    Examples:
        >>> from skcomplex.models.chemistry.pattern_formation import schnakenberg
        >>> schnakenberg((8, 8)).elements[0].values['Dv']
        40.0
    """
    shape = tuple(shape)
    steady_u, steady_v = a + b, b / (a + b) ** 2
    values = {
        'u': steady_u * (1 + _noise(shape, 0.01, random_state)),
        'v': np.full(shape, steady_v),
        'a': a,
        'b': b,
        'Du': Du,
        'Dv': Dv,
    }
    return System(
        elements=[
            FieldElement(
                'cells',
                element=SchnakenbergElement,
                space=LatticeSpace(shape, spacing=spacing),
                values=values,
            ),
        ],
        interactions=[*_get_schnakenberg_reactions(), *_get_diffusions()],
    )

Components

class SchnakenbergElement(Element):
    """Site of the Schnakenberg model, the activator `u` and the inhibitor `v`.

    The reactions of `schnakenberg` at every site, the productions `a` of `u` and `b` of `v`, the decay of `u`, and
    the autocatalysis `2U + V -> 3U`, read `a` and `b`, and its diffusions read `Du` and `Dv`.

    Args:
        label:
            The label of the site or the field.

        visual:
            How the element is drawn, or `None` for `default_visual_`.

        u:
            The initial activator.

        v:
            The initial inhibitor.

        a:
            The production of `u`.

        b:
            The production of `v`.

        Du:
            The diffusion of the activator.

        Dv:
            The diffusion of the inhibitor.

    Examples:
        >>> from skcomplex.models.chemistry.pattern_formation import SchnakenbergElement
        >>> SchnakenbergElement('cell').Dv
        40.0
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        label: str,
        visual: VisualSpec | None = None,
        *,
        u: Annotated[object, StateSpec()] = 1.0,
        v: Annotated[object, StateSpec()] = 0.9,
        a: Annotated[object, ParameterSpec()] = 0.1,
        b: Annotated[object, ParameterSpec()] = 0.9,
        Du: Annotated[object, ParameterSpec()] = 1.0,
        Dv: Annotated[object, ParameterSpec()] = 40.0,
    ) -> None:
        super().__init__(label, visual=visual)
        self.u = u
        self.v = v
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        self.Du = Du
        self.Dv = Dv

class ReactionInteraction(JumpInteraction):
    """Reaction that moves units from its reactants to its products at a mass-action or a given propensity.

    A reactant, a product, or a modifier is a pair of the path of an element, or of a member of a group such as
    `cells[0]`, and the name of its state that holds the units, mapped to its stoichiometric coefficient. A coefficient
    is a positive number, or a function of the namespace of the reaction that returns an expression of its parameters,
    such as `lambda s: 1 / s.target.epsilon`. So `S + I -> 2 I` has the reactants `{('S', 'n'): 1, ('I', 'n'): 1}` and
    the products `{('I', 'n'): 2}`, and two states of one element are `('cell', 'u')` and `('cell', 'v')`. A species may
    also be the name of a state of the `target` alone, such as `{'u': 1, 'v': 2}`. A target that is a group or a field
    reacts in every member, with the species of every member its own states, as the reactions at every site of a
    reaction-diffusion field.

    A subclass may bind its species under roles of its own names, such as `susceptible` and `infected`: it returns its
    entries from `_get_reactants`, `_get_products`, and `_get_modifiers`, pairs of the path a role binds and a state
    name, and the reaction reads every pair from the namespace of the role that binds its path.

    The propensity is `k` times the product of every reactant and modifier state to the power of its coefficient, or the
    expression the `propensity` function returns. The reaction changes every state by its coefficient among the products
    minus its coefficient among the reactants, so it conserves the total of the states whose changes sum to zero, and
    modifiers enter the propensity but do not change.

    In the mode `'rate'` the reaction is a rate equation. In the mode `'jump'` it is the random event of a
    `JumpInteraction` at the propensity that moves the units of the coefficients. In the mode `'langevin'` it is the
    chemical Langevin equation, the rate equation with one Wiener process of amplitude the square root of the propensity
    driving every state the reaction changes.

    In the `'agent'` form the target is an agent group and every member reacts on its own states, the species named by
    state names alone, in every step from the states at its start. The propensity of a member is `k` times the product
    of its reactant and modifier states to the power of their coefficients, or the number `propensity(agent, model)`
    returns, and a coefficient that is a function is the number `coefficient(agent, model)` returns. In the mode
    `'rate'` the member adds the changes times its propensity, one unit step of the rate equation, and in the mode
    `'jump'` it adds the changes with the probability `1 - exp(-propensity)` that an event fires in the step. The
    members react at once from the states at the start of the rule under the schedule `'synchronous'`, one after the
    other in their order or in a new random order every step under `'sequential'` or `'random-sequential'`, or each in
    its own activation under `'member'`.

    Args:
        label:
            The label of the reaction, unique among the parts of its system.

        target:
            The path of the element, group, or field whose states the species named by a state alone are, or `None`.

        reactants:
            The coefficients of the reactants, or `None` for a source.

        products:
            The coefficients of the products, or `None` for a sink.

        k:
            The rate constant.

        propensity:
            A function of the namespace of the reaction that returns the propensity, or `None` for mass action. The
            namespace holds the tuples `reactants`, `products`, and `modifiers` of the namespaces of the elements their
            pairs bind, in the order of their entries, `target`, the namespace of the target or of one of its members,
            and the symbol `k`. In the agent form, a function `propensity(agent, model)` that returns a number.

        modifiers:
            The coefficients of the modifiers, whose states the propensity reads but the reaction does not change, or
            `None`.

        mode:
            The form of the laws, `'rate'`, `'jump'`, or `'langevin'`.

        form:
            `'symbolic'` for the laws of the states, or `'agent'` for a rule in which every member of an agent group
            reacts on its own states.

        phase:
            The phase of the step the agent form runs in, or `None` for the default phase.

        schedule:
            The order of the members in the agent form, `'synchronous'`, `'sequential'`, `'random-sequential'`, or
            `'member'`.

    Raises:
        ValidationError:
            The mode, the form, or the schedule is unknown, the symbolic form is not synchronous, the reaction has
            neither reactants nor products, an entry is neither a pair of a path and a state name nor a state name of a
            given target, a coefficient is neither a positive number nor a function, or the agent form has no target,
            has an entry that is a pair, or has the mode `'langevin'`.

    Examples:
        >>> from skcomplex.core.elements import CompartmentElement
        >>> from skcomplex.core.interactions import ReactionInteraction
        >>> from skcomplex.core.system import System
        >>> from skcomplex.engine.runtime import Simulation
        >>> infection = ReactionInteraction(
        ...     'infection', reactants={('S', 'n'): 1, ('I', 'n'): 1}, products={('I', 'n'): 2}, k=0.0005
        ... )
        >>> recovery = ReactionInteraction('recovery', reactants={('I', 'n'): 1}, products={('R', 'n'): 1}, k=0.1)
        >>> system = System(
        ...     elements=[CompartmentElement('S', n=990), CompartmentElement('I', n=10), CompartmentElement('R')],
        ...     interactions=[infection, recovery],
        ... )
        >>> states = Simulation(system, dt=1.0).check().prepare().run(until=50).trajectory_.states
        >>> round(float(states[-1].sum()), 6)
        1000.0

        The decay `n -> 0` at every site of a field, at the rate `k n` of the site:

        >>> import numpy as np
        >>> from skcomplex.core.elements import FieldElement
        >>> from skcomplex.core.spaces import LatticeSpace
        >>> decay = ReactionInteraction('decay', target='cells', reactants={'n': 1}, k=1.0)
        >>> values = {'n': np.arange(3.0)}
        >>> cells = FieldElement('cells', element=CompartmentElement, space=LatticeSpace((3,)), values=values)
        >>> simulation = Simulation(System(elements=[cells], interactions=[decay]), dt=1.0).check().prepare()
        >>> np.round(simulation.run(until=1).trajectory_.lattice('cells.n')[-1], 3).tolist()
        [0.0, 0.368, 0.736]

        A coefficient that is a parameter, the decay at the rate `x` that removes `1 / epsilon` units per event:

        >>> from typing import Annotated
        >>> from skcomplex.core.elements import Element
        >>> from skcomplex.specs import ParameterSpec, StateSpec
        >>> class ScaledElement(Element):
        ...     def __init__(
        ...         self,
        ...         label,
        ...         x: Annotated[float, StateSpec()] = 1.0,
        ...         epsilon: Annotated[float, ParameterSpec()] = 0.5,
        ...     ):
        ...         super().__init__(label)
        ...         self.x = x
        ...         self.epsilon = epsilon
        >>> scaled = ReactionInteraction(
        ...     'decay', target='box', reactants={'x': lambda s: 1 / s.target.epsilon}, propensity=lambda s: s.target.x
        ... )
        >>> simulation = Simulation(System(elements=[ScaledElement('box')], interactions=[scaled]), dt=0.01)
        >>> round(float(simulation.check().prepare().run(until=0.5).trajectory_.values('box.x')[-1]), 3)
        0.368

        Every agent of a group decays on its own states, by `k n` in a step of the rate equation:

        >>> from skcomplex.core.elements import GroupElement
        >>> from skcomplex.core.spaces import DiscreteTime
        >>> class CellElement(Element):
        ...     def __init__(self, label, n: Annotated[float, StateSpec()] = 3.0):
        ...         super().__init__(label)
        ...         self.n = n
        >>> cells = GroupElement('cells', element=CellElement, size=2)
        >>> decay = ReactionInteraction('decay', target='cells', reactants={'n': 1}, k=0.1, form='agent')
        >>> system = System(elements=[cells], interactions=[decay], time=DiscreteTime())
        >>> trajectory = Simulation(system).check().prepare().run(until=2).trajectory_
        >>> np.round(trajectory.agents('cells', 2).values['n'], 6).tolist()
        [2.43, 2.43]
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        label: str,
        *,
        target: Annotated[str | None, RoleSpec()] = None,
        reactants: Annotated[Stoichiometry | None, RoleSpec(variadic=True)] = None,
        products: Annotated[Stoichiometry | None, RoleSpec(variadic=True)] = None,
        k: Annotated[float, ParameterSpec(domain=RealSet.closed_open(0, oo))] = 1.0,
        propensity: Callable[..., object] | None = None,
        modifiers: Annotated[Stoichiometry | None, RoleSpec(variadic=True)] = None,
        mode: str = 'rate',
        form: str = 'symbolic',
        phase: str | None = None,
        schedule: str = 'synchronous',
    ) -> None:
        super().__init__(label, target='')
        self.target = target
        self.reactants = reactants
        self.products = products
        self.k = k
        self.propensity = propensity
        self.modifiers = modifiers
        self.mode = mode
        self.form = form
        self.phase = phase
        self.schedule = schedule

    def _get_reactants(self) -> Stoichiometry | None:
        """Return the coefficients of the reactants, which a subclass with roles of its own names returns."""
        return self.reactants

    def _get_products(self) -> Stoichiometry | None:
        """Return the coefficients of the products, which a subclass with roles of its own names returns."""
        return self.products

    def _get_modifiers(self) -> Stoichiometry | None:
        """Return the coefficients of the modifiers, which a subclass with roles of its own names returns."""
        return self.modifiers

    def _get_mode(self) -> str:
        """Return the form of the laws, which a subclass that sets it by another argument returns."""
        return self.mode

    def _get_bound(self, namespace: SimpleNamespace) -> dict[str, SimpleNamespace]:
        """Return the namespace of every path the plain roles of the reaction bind, by path."""
        roles = [
            name
            for name, spec in self._get_specs().items()
            if isinstance(spec, RoleSpec) and not spec.variadic and not spec.noise
        ]
        return {
            getattr(self, name): getattr(namespace, name)
            for name in roles
            if isinstance(getattr(self, name), str) and hasattr(namespace, name)
        }

    def _get_terms(
        self,
        entries: Stoichiometry | None,
        namespace: SimpleNamespace,
        name: str,
    ) -> list[tuple[Expression, Expression | float]]:
        """Return the state symbol and the coefficient of every entry of a kind of species.

        A state name alone is a state of the target. A pair reads the namespace of the plain role that binds its path,
        or else the namespace of its variadic role `name`, in the order of the pairs. A coefficient that is a function
        is its expression at the namespace.
        """
        entries = entries or {}
        pairs = [entry for entry in entries if not isinstance(entry, str)]
        sources: dict[object, SimpleNamespace] = {}
        if pairs and name in self._get_specs():
            sources = dict(zip(pairs, getattr(namespace, name), strict=True))
        elif pairs:
            bound = self._get_bound(namespace)
            sources = {pair: bound[pair[0]] for pair in pairs}
        return [
            (
                getattr(
                    self._get_member(namespace, 'target') if isinstance(entry, str) else sources[entry],
                    self._get_state(entry),
                ),
                SR(coefficient(namespace)) if callable(coefficient) else coefficient,
            )
            for entry, coefficient in entries.items()
        ]

    def _get_state(self, entry: tuple[str, str] | str) -> str:
        """Return the name of the state of an entry, a state name alone or the second item of a pair."""
        return entry if isinstance(entry, str) else entry[1]

    def _get_changes(self, namespace: SimpleNamespace) -> dict[Expression, float]:
        """Return the net change of every state the reaction changes, products minus reactants."""
        changes: dict[Expression, float] = {}
        for sign, entries, name in (
            (-1, self._get_reactants(), 'reactants'),
            (1, self._get_products(), 'products'),
        ):
            for state, coefficient in self._get_terms(entries, namespace, name):
                changes[state] = changes.get(state, 0) + sign * coefficient
        return {state: change for state, change in changes.items() if change}

    def _get_mass_action(self, namespace: SimpleNamespace, constant: Expression) -> Expression:
        """Return the mass action of a rate constant, times every reactant and modifier to its coefficient."""
        propensity = SR(constant)
        for entries, name in ((self._get_reactants(), 'reactants'), (self._get_modifiers(), 'modifiers')):
            for state, coefficient in self._get_terms(entries, namespace, name):
                propensity *= state**coefficient
        return propensity

    def _get_rate(self, namespace: SimpleNamespace) -> Expression:
        """Return the propensity of the reaction, by the user's function or by mass action at the rate constant `k`."""
        if self.propensity is not None:
            return SR(self.propensity(namespace))
        return self._get_mass_action(namespace, self._get_parameter_symbol('k', namespace))

    def _get_langevin_laws(self, propensity: Expression, changes: dict[Expression, float]) -> list[BasePart]:
        """Return the drift of the reaction and the noise of its one Wiener process on every state it changes."""
        amplitude = sqrt(where(propensity > 0, propensity, 0))
        rates: list[BasePart] = [RateLaw(state, change * propensity) for state, change in changes.items()]
        noises: list[BasePart] = [
            NoiseLaw(state, change * amplitude, process=self.label) for state, change in changes.items()
        ]
        return rates + noises

    def _is_entry(self, entry: object) -> bool:
        """Check whether an entry is a pair of a path and a state name, or a state name of a given target."""
        if isinstance(entry, str):
            return self.target is not None and entry.isidentifier()
        return (
            isinstance(entry, tuple)
            and len(entry) == ENTRY_SIZE
            and all(isinstance(item, str) for item in entry)
            and entry[1].isidentifier()
        )

    def _is_coefficient(self, coefficient: object) -> bool:
        """Check whether a coefficient is a positive number or a function."""
        return callable(coefficient) or (isinstance(coefficient, int | float) and coefficient > 0)

    def _check_entries(self, name: str, entries: Stoichiometry | None) -> None:
        """Raise an error for entries that are neither pairs nor state names of the target, or not coefficients."""
        if entries is None:
            return
        valid = isinstance(entries, Mapping) and all(
            self._is_entry(entry) and self._is_coefficient(coefficient) for entry, coefficient in entries.items()
        )
        if not valid:
            error_msg = (
                f'The {name} of reaction {self.label!r} are {entries!r}. Map pairs of a path and a state name, or '
                'state names of the target, to positive numbers or functions, such as {("S", "n"): 1} or {"n": 1}.'
            )
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)

    def _check_form(self) -> None:
        """Raise an error for an unknown form, or an agent form without a target, with pairs, or of Langevin mode."""
        if self.form not in FORMS:
            error_msg = f'Reaction {self.label!r} has the form {self.form!r}. Use one of {", ".join(FORMS)}.'
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)
        self._check_variant('schedule', self.schedule, SCHEDULES)
        if self.form != 'agent' and self.schedule != 'synchronous':
            error_msg = f'The schedule {self.schedule!r} of reaction {self.label!r} runs agent rules. Use form="agent".'
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)
        if self.form != 'agent':
            return
        if self.target is None:
            error_msg = f'Reaction {self.label!r} has the agent form but no target. Give the agent group as `target`.'
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)
        mode = self._get_mode()
        if mode not in AGENT_MODES:
            error_msg = (
                f'Reaction {self.label!r} has the agent form and the mode {mode!r}. Use {" or ".join(AGENT_MODES)}.'
            )
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)
        entries = [*(self._get_reactants() or {}), *(self._get_products() or {}), *(self._get_modifiers() or {})]
        if not all(isinstance(entry, str) for entry in entries):
            error_msg = (
                f'Reaction {self.label!r} has the agent form, whose species are states of every member. Name them by '
                'state names alone, such as {"n": 1}.'
            )
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)

    def _check_jump(self) -> None:
        """Raise an error for an unknown mode or form, no reactants and products, or entries the reaction cannot take.

        Raises:
            ValidationError:
                The mode or the form is unknown, the reaction has neither reactants nor products, an entry is neither a
                pair of a path and a state name nor a state name of a given target, a coefficient is neither a positive
                number nor a function, or the agent form has no target, has an entry that is a pair, or has the mode
                `'langevin'`.
        """
        mode = self._get_mode()
        if mode not in MODES:
            error_msg = f'Reaction {self.label!r} has the mode {mode!r}. Use one of {", ".join(MODES)}.'
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)
        reactants, products = self._get_reactants(), self._get_products()
        if not reactants and not products:
            error_msg = f'Reaction {self.label!r} has neither reactants nor products. Give at least one of them.'
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)
        for name, entries in (('reactants', reactants), ('products', products), ('modifiers', self._get_modifiers())):
            self._check_entries(name, entries)
        self._check_form()

    def _get_number(self, value: object, agent: AgentViewProtocol, model: ModelViewProtocol) -> float:
        """Return a number, or the value of a function of an agent and the model as a number."""
        found = value(agent, model) if callable(value) else value
        if not isinstance(found, SupportsFloat):
            error_msg = f'A function of reaction {self.label!r} returns {found!r} for an agent. Return a number.'
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)
        return float(found)

    def _get_agent_changes(self, agent: AgentViewProtocol, model: ModelViewProtocol) -> dict[str, float]:
        """Return the net change of every state of an agent the reaction changes, products minus reactants."""
        changes: dict[str, float] = {}
        for sign, entries in ((-1, self._get_reactants()), (1, self._get_products())):
            for entry, coefficient in (entries or {}).items():
                state = self._get_state(entry)
                changes[state] = changes.get(state, 0.0) + sign * self._get_number(coefficient, agent, model)
        return changes

    def _get_agent_propensity(self, agent: AgentViewProtocol, model: ModelViewProtocol) -> float:
        """Return the propensity of an agent, by the user's function or by mass action at the rate constant `k`."""
        if self.propensity is not None:
            return self._get_number(self.propensity, agent, model)
        propensity = self._get_parameter_value('k', model)
        for entries in (self._get_reactants(), self._get_modifiers()):
            for entry, coefficient in (entries or {}).items():
                value = float(getattr(agent, self._get_state(entry)))
                propensity *= value ** self._get_number(coefficient, agent, model)
        return propensity

    def _get_agent_scale(self, propensity: float, model: ModelViewProtocol) -> float:
        """Return the multiple of its changes an agent adds in a step, its propensity or whether an event fires."""
        if self._get_mode() == 'rate':
            return propensity
        return float(model.rng.random() < 1.0 - math.exp(-max(propensity, 0.0)))

    def _get_agent_step(self, agent: AgentViewProtocol, model: ModelViewProtocol) -> dict[str, float]:
        """Return the change of every state of an agent in the step, its changes times its propensity or its event."""
        changes, propensity = self._get_agent_changes(agent, model), self._get_agent_propensity(agent, model)
        scale = self._get_agent_scale(propensity, model)
        return {state: change * scale for state, change in changes.items()}

    def _apply_agent_step(self, agent: AgentViewProtocol, changes: dict[str, float]) -> None:
        """Add their changes to the states of an agent."""
        for state, change in changes.items():
            setattr(agent, state, float(getattr(agent, state)) + change)

    def _react_member(self, agent: AgentViewProtocol, model: ModelViewProtocol) -> None:
        """React in one agent on its own states, in its own activation."""
        if agent.alive:
            self._apply_agent_step(agent, self._get_agent_step(agent, model))

    def react(self, model: ModelViewProtocol) -> None:
        """React in every agent of the target on its own states, by the schedule.

        Args:
            model:
                The model view of the interaction.
        """
        self._update_agents(model, self.schedule, self._get_agent_step, self._apply_agent_step)

    def _get_laws(self, namespace: SimpleNamespace) -> list[BasePart]:
        """Return the laws of the reaction in its mode, or the rule of the agent form.

        Args:
            namespace:
                The namespace of the symbols the laws can use, with the namespaces of the target, the reactants, the
                products, and the modifiers.

        Returns:
            laws:
                The rate laws, the jump law, the rate and noise laws, or the rule of the reaction.
        """
        if self.form == 'agent' and self.schedule == 'member':
            return [RuleLaw(self._react_member, phase=self.phase, members=self._get_role('target'))]
        if self.form == 'agent':
            return [RuleLaw(self.react, phase=self.phase)]
        mode = self._get_mode()
        if mode == 'jump':
            return [*super()._get_laws(namespace)]
        propensity = self._get_rate(namespace)
        changes = self._get_changes(namespace)
        if mode == 'langevin':
            return self._get_langevin_laws(propensity, changes)
        return [RateLaw(state, change * propensity) for state, change in changes.items()]

class CubicAutocatalysisInteraction(ReactionInteraction):
    """Cubic autocatalysis `A + 2B -> 3B` at the mass-action rate `k a b^2`, between two states of the target.

    The autocatalyst `B` converts the substrate `A` into itself. The reaction is the autocatalytic step of the
    Gray-Scott model, with the substrate `u` and the autocatalyst `v`, and of the Brusselator and the Schnakenberg
    model, `2U + V -> 3U`, with the substrate `v` and the autocatalyst `u`. A target that is a field reacts at every
    site.

    Args:
        label:
            The label of the reaction.

        target:
            The path of the reactor, or of the field whose every site reacts.

        substrate:
            The name of the state of the substrate.

        autocatalyst:
            The name of the state of the autocatalyst.

        k:
            The rate constant.

        mode:
            The form of the laws, `'rate'`, `'jump'`, or `'langevin'`.

    Raises:
        ValidationError:
            The mode is unknown, or a state name is not an identifier.

    Examples:
        >>> from skcomplex.core.system import System
        >>> from skcomplex.engine.runtime import Simulation
        >>> from skcomplex.models.chemistry.common.kinetics import CubicAutocatalysisInteraction
        >>> from skcomplex.models.chemistry.kinetics import CubicAutocatalysisElement
        >>> reaction = CubicAutocatalysisInteraction('autocatalysis', target='reactor', substrate='a', autocatalyst='b')
        >>> reactor = CubicAutocatalysisElement('reactor', a=1.0, b=0.5)
        >>> trajectory = Simulation(System(elements=[reactor], interactions=[reaction]), dt=1.0).check().prepare()
        >>> states = trajectory.run(until=10).trajectory_.states
        >>> round(float(states[-1].sum()), 6)
        1.5
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        label: str,
        *,
        target: Annotated[str, RoleSpec()],
        substrate: str = 'u',
        autocatalyst: str = 'v',
        k: Annotated[float, ParameterSpec(domain=RealSet.closed_open(0, oo))] = 1.0,
        mode: str = 'rate',
    ) -> None:
        super().__init__(label, target=target, k=k, mode=mode)
        self.substrate = substrate
        self.autocatalyst = autocatalyst

    def _get_reactants(self) -> Stoichiometry:
        """Return one substrate and two autocatalysts, the reactants of `A + 2B -> 3B`."""
        return {self.substrate: 1, self.autocatalyst: 2}

    def _get_products(self) -> Stoichiometry:
        """Return three autocatalysts, the products of `A + 2B -> 3B`."""
        return {self.autocatalyst: 3}

class DiffusionInteraction(ConservationInteraction):
    """Diffusion `du/dt = D laplacian(u)` of a state `u` of a field, the conservation law of the flux `-D gradient(u)`.

    The coefficient `D` is uniform in space, a number or a function of the namespace that returns an expression of
    parameters and time. The interaction lowers to the Laplacian of the field, which its discretization evaluates, so
    the total of the state on a periodic field stays constant and a point mass spreads as the heat kernel.

    Args:
        label:
            The label of the interaction, unique among the parts of its system.

        target:
            The path of the field whose state diffuses.

        state:
            The name of the state of the field that diffuses.

        coefficient:
            A function of the namespace that returns the diffusion coefficient, or a number.

    Raises:
        ValidationError:
            The state is not a name, or the coefficient is neither callable nor a number.

    Examples:
        >>> from typing import Annotated
        >>> import numpy as np
        >>> from skcomplex.core.elements import Element, FieldElement
        >>> from skcomplex.core.interactions import DiffusionInteraction
        >>> from skcomplex.core.spaces import LatticeSpace
        >>> from skcomplex.core.system import System
        >>> from skcomplex.engine.runtime import Simulation
        >>> from skcomplex.specs import StateSpec
        >>> class CellElement(Element):
        ...     def __init__(self, label, u: Annotated[float, StateSpec()] = 0.0):
        ...         super().__init__(label)
        ...         self.u = u
        >>> space = LatticeSpace((40,), spacing=0.1, boundary='periodic')
        >>> field = FieldElement('rod', element=CellElement, space=space, values={'u': np.eye(40)[20]})
        >>> heat = DiffusionInteraction('heat', target='rod', state='u', coefficient=0.1)
        >>> trajectory = Simulation(System(elements=[field], interactions=[heat]), dt=0.01).check().prepare()
        >>> round(float(trajectory.run(until=1.0).trajectory_.values('rod.u')[-1].sum()), 6)
        1.0
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        label: str,
        *,
        target: Annotated[str, RoleSpec()],
        state: str = 'u',
        coefficient: Callable[[SimpleNamespace], object] | float = 1.0,
    ) -> None:
        super().__init__(label, target=target, state=state)
        self.coefficient = coefficient

    def _check(self) -> None:
        """Raise an error for a state that is not a name, or a coefficient that is neither callable nor a number.

        Raises:
            ValidationError:
                The type declares states, the state is not a name, or the coefficient is neither callable nor a number.
        """
        super()._check()
        if not (callable(self.coefficient) or isinstance(self.coefficient, int | float)):
            error_msg = f'The coefficient of {self.label!r} is {self.coefficient!r}. Give a function or a number.'
            raise ValidationError(error_msg)

    def _get_transport_laws(self, namespace: SimpleNamespace) -> list[BasePart]:
        """Return the rate `D laplacian(u)` of the state, the divergence of the diffusive flux.

        Args:
            namespace:
                The namespace of the symbols the laws can use, with the namespace of the field.

        Returns:
            laws:
                The rate law of the state.
        """
        coefficient = self.coefficient(namespace) if callable(self.coefficient) else self.coefficient
        state = getattr(self._get_member(namespace, 'target'), self.state)
        return [RateLaw(state, coefficient * laplacian(state))]

Equations

cells.u[i]: diff(u_cells(t), t) == k_autocatalysis*u_cells(t)^2*v_cells(t) + a_cells*k_production_u + Du_cells*laplacian(u_cells(t)) - k_decay*u_cells(t)
cells.v[i]: diff(v_cells(t), t) == -k_autocatalysis*u_cells(t)^2*v_cells(t) + b_cells*k_production_v + Dv_cells*laplacian(v_cells(t))